06-06-06

Omen or diabolical marketing opportunity?

[Syzygy]

For one group of expectant mothers, their due date holds an extra dimension of dread. The prospect of giving birth on June 6, 6/6/06, has prompted talk of spawning devil children on Armageddon day.

For Hollywood and the worldwide entertainment industry it is by contrast a once-in-a-century opportunity to turn evil into gold. Leading the charge is 20th Century Fox, whose remake of The Omen, the classic 1970s horror film, will appear on June 6.

From The Sunday Times [timesonline.co.uk]

Hmm, 667 - the neighbour of the beast?

[DamonHD]

Hi,

Was the guy at #667 the one who invented 7-Up? %-P

Rgds

Damon

[mattglet]

My girlfriend's birthday is June 6th, so we're going to have an "evil" themed party this year. Should be amusing.

[bill]

I was wondering why they had a full 'Omen' building facade with lots of sexy 'priests' and 'nuns' handing out fliers near my building today. You don't see that too often in Japan...not during the day at least. ;)

Happy 666 everyone! ;)

[Visit Thailand]

I wish they would reproduce the Omen films, am sure they would be a hit.

Isn't 666 an incorrect translation though and the number should be 616?

[Crush]

"I wish they would reproduce the Omen films, am sure they would be a hit."

haha, someone was ahead of you. They are releasing the omen today.

[courierpress.com...]

"Blue noted that a film-maker had "taken advantage" of today's unusual date "to release a horror movie." That movie is a remake of "The Omen," the dark 1976 nail-biter that related Hollywood's idea of the birth of the Antichrist."

[Visit Thailand]

Thanks Crush, will definitely look out for it, even though the Reuters review I just read does not make it sound that good. I had not even heard they were dong a remake. Whoever is in the film's marketing dept. should be fired!

[httpwebwitch]

06/06/06 06:06:06 is still a few hours away in this time zone, and I intend to sleep through it. Happy sixes day to you all.

I have no doubts we will we see similar threads on 07/07/07.

On 05/05/05 [webmasterworld.com] we were more concerned with a Google Blip, but we had a similar thread on 04/04/04 [webmasterworld.com], and people were worrying about PR bounces on 03/03/03 [webmasterworld.com].

And do you remember two months ago, we were discussing 01:02:03 04-05-06 [webmasterworld.com]?

[malachite]

And do you remember two months ago, we were discussing 01:02:03 04-05-06?

Wasn't that last month on the 4th of May? ;)

[lgn1]

Since this superstition came from roman times, wouldn't it be VI VI VI :)